j校里还需要教些什么？
One can only imagine what must be going through the minds of studentswho just began 10 months of study at the J-school, as this trainingground for news gatherers is commonly called. Here they are — they ortheir parents or their loan sharks — paying more than $30,000 to a placethat now has no permanent leader and admits, after having cashed thetuition checks, that it is not sure what it is all about.
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Still, Columbia may have a point. Perhaps some rethinking is in order onhow to teach the skills that will qualify a new generation ofjournalists to scream at one another on "The McLaughlin Group."
Since Mr. Bollinger spoke out, people in the news business have debatedthe J-school's future. Some professors and alumni have expressed concernthat the gritty basics of the craft will give way to ethereal courses incommunications theory and the like. How in the name of Brenda Starr, theworriers say, will that help young reporters know what to do when newssources hang up on them five minutes before deadline? The fretting hasled to assurances from David A. Klatell, the school's acting dean, thatany curriculum changes will not undermine "our traditional `craft'offerings."
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By now, you may be wondering why you should care. Simple. The news mediais widely cast as a modern Wizard of Oz, all-knowing and all-powerful,deciding everything from the popularity of Britney Spears to whether theUnited States goes to war against Iraq. Never mind if this squares withreality. The perception is there.
And given that, can we afford to have journalists who are dumber than isabsolutely necessary? Their training matters to every American,including a columnist who, despite never having gone to the J-school,has a few thoughts on the subject.
FOR starters, young news gatherers have to know how to use technologywisely. That being the case, they must be taught to always carry a pencil.
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Still, Columbia may have a point. Perhaps some rethinking is in order onhow to teach the skills that will qualify a new generation ofjournalists to scream at one another on "The McLaughlin Group."
Since Mr. Bollinger spoke out, people in the news business have debatedthe J-school's future. Some professors and alumni have expressed concernthat the gritty basics of the craft will give way to ethereal courses incommunications theory and the like. How in the name of Brenda Starr, theworriers say, will that help young reporters know what to do when newssources hang up on them five minutes before deadline? The fretting hasled to assurances from David A. Klatell, the school's acting dean, thatany curriculum changes will not undermine "our traditional `craft'offerings."
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By now, you may be wondering why you should care. Simple. The news mediais widely cast as a modern Wizard of Oz, all-knowing and all-powerful,deciding everything from the popularity of Britney Spears to whether theUnited States goes to war against Iraq. Never mind if this squares withreality. The perception is there.
And given that, can we afford to have journalists who are dumber than isabsolutely necessary? Their training matters to every American,including a columnist who, despite never having gone to the J-school,has a few thoughts on the subject.
FOR starters, young news gatherers have to know how to use technologywisely. That being the case, they must be taught to always carry a pencil.
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